Victoria Machinery Depot - Ships Built

Ships Built

Miscellaneous vessels
  • Hull 6 SS Mount Royal - 1902, built for the Hudson's Bay Company.
  • Hull 136 SEDCO 135-F - 1967, at 8,676 gross tonnage it was one of the largest vessels built by VMD.
Warships
  • Hull 58 HMCS Terra Nova (DDE 259) - 1959 Restigouche-class destroyer
  • Hull 87 HMCS Saskatchewan (DDE 262) - 1959–1961 Mackenzie-class destroyer moved to a shipyard in Yarrow for completion in September 1961.
Ferries
  • Hull 52 MV Loyd Jones - 1950, later known as the MV Vesuvius Queen. (see also Steamboats of Lake Okanagan)
  • Hull 79 MV Mill Bay - 1956 built for Coast Ferries Ltd., purchased by BC Ferries in 1969.
  • Hull 85 MV Sidney - 1960, later MV Queen Of Sidney - 1963.
  • Hull 94 MV City of Victoria - 1962, later Queen of Victoria 1963, Queen of Ocoa 2000, Aan 2005, scrapped 2006.
  • Hull 99 MV Queen of Saanich - 1963
  • Hull 100 MV Queen of Esquimalt - 1963
  • Hull 104 MV Queen of Nanaimo - 1964
  • Hull 105 MV Queen of New Westminster - 1964
  • Hull 107 MV Comox Queen - 1964 built for the Ministry of Transportation, later the MV Tenaka.
  • Hull 125 MV Queen of Burnaby - 1965
  • Hull 129 MV Powell River Queen - 1965
  • Hull 130 MV Mayne Queen - 1965
  • Hull 131 MV Bowen Queen - 1965
  • Hull 124 MV Queen of Prince Rupert - 1966
  • Hull 145 MV Doris Yorke - 1968, now Seaspan Doris (a truck and rail ferry), was the last vessel constructed by VMD.

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